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Kate and Ruth trek up Prospect (p. 700)

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One of the heads she does not see, floating in the windows with her own unrecognizable head and Ruth van Cleve’s cloud of hair, is the gaunt and spectral hollow-eyed head of Poor Tony Krause, who’s several steps behind them and matching their slightly serpentine course step for step, eyeing string purses he imagines contain more than just train-fare and NA Newcomers’ keychains.

Context

The panel's closing shot, and the middle link of the PT-as-revenant chain (131 → 136 → 141): Poor Tony's "gaunt and spectral hollow-eyed head" floating among the disconnected window-heads, stalking the two women — he is literally one of the previous page's "undead" now, a spectral head Kate doesn't see, about to become the apparition she does.

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